John Ruskin Quotes
No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.
John Ruskin
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'Malthus,', says Vice President Al Gore in Earth in the Balance, 'was right in predicting that the population would grow geometrically.' Al, as the father of four children, should know.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I write... for laymen and scientists, because the reader who is interested in any activity which needs thought and judgement is... a person to whom science can be made to speak, It is not he who is deaf, but the specialists who have been dumb-the specialists in the arts as well as in the sciences.
Jacob Bronowski
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But supposing one tries to live by Pantheistic philosophy? Does it lead to a complacent Hegelian optimism?
C. S. Lewis
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Hierocles: You will never make the crab walk straight. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
Aristophanes
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I'm always up for music shows such as Jools Holland, but news more than anything, particularly Newsnight. And cookery: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Rick Stein - it's down to him that I cook fish so much - and the great food alchemist Heston Blumenthal.
Charles Hazlewood
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
Patrick MacGill
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
William James
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Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Well, frenetic activity in the end suiting journos, running at the behest of little press secretaries does not pay off.
Paul Keating
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When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names... Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn't really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I wanted something a bit more funny - yet something that seemed real rock 'n' roll... something that acknowledged my ambition.
William Broad
Generation X
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No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.
John Ruskin